The Resume of NSA Leaker Edward Snowden: Stunning (High school drop-out makes $200K year?)

Doug Ross @ Journal ^ | June 9, 2013

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'd hate to be in the Public Relations department at government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton this weekend. It's not just the fact that Snowden is/was a Booz employee.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Edward Snowden's employer, is one of America's biggest security contractors and a significant part of the constantly revolving door between the US intelligence establishment and the private sector.

The current of director [sic] of national intelligence (DNI), James Clapper, who issued a stinging attack on the intelligence leaks this weekend, is a former Booz Allen executive.

And it's not just that DNI Clapper is an ex-BAH exec and his statement is just a tad embarrassing.

No, let's examine the reported resume of Snowden (dates are estimated):

• Raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina and later moved to Maryland.

• Attended a community college, but never completed his coursework and never graduated from high school.

• 2003-2004: U.S. Army, discharged after training accident

• 2005: NSA, Security Guard, University of Maryland.

• 2006: CIA, IT security.

• 2007-2009: CIA, diplomatic cover, Switzerland.

• 2009-2013: NSA Contractor, Dell and later Booz Allen Hamilton.

• Salary: around $200,000.

What? Seriously? So a guy who never even graduated from high school (he later reportedly earned a G.E.D.) and started his professional career as a security guard, got hired by a couple of defense contractors and -- at age 29 -- was making $200K a year?

If this story is true, I don't know what's more bizarre: the leak itself or the sheer profligacy of the federal spending machine.

[central_va]

What he makes and what Booz Allen charges the govt for him are totally different. I was a govt contractor with “a major consulting firm”. This “firm” charged the US Govt $150.00 per hour for me, believe me I was lucky to get 40% of that.

[House Atreides]

Who gave him the authority to wiretap “nearly everyone in the US including Obama”? What equipment and personal did he have access to?
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I think “...the authority to wiretap...” is probably a misnomer. I suspect that this is a “data guy” with expertise in data bases and specifically, the data base systems that NSA was/is using in this endeavor. He likely had access to make any type of queries of the massive data collected that his (and possibly his Chinese handlers) little “curious” mind conjured up.

Does anyone know if his “girl friend” is a Chinese national or ethnically Chinese?

[Dusty Road]

Thank God I got into the oil business because my computer skills suck. The good thing is guys with the time and experience that I’ve develpoed in the last 40 years are in high demand. I’ve been trying to retire for 3 years now and they won’t let me, they’re not saying no but they make it damn hard to say I quit, if ya know what I mean.

[hoosiermama]

Something is not right. It smells. If I wanted to give cover to young man..... Never mind.

[PieterCasparzen]

Perhaps the globalism you write about is a cover for the communism. Believe me, the Communists have always had the global interest in mind. World Communism has always been their goal.

It's the other way around. The big money people control the world. NOT every little detail. But the big decisions. Create a revolt in a country. Pass a law in the US requiring everyone to buy insurance. ETC.

If you've got a country teeming with millions of people in abject poverty, there ALWAYS are a few rich people at the top of that country. THEY will be in business with globalist / international banking. Who finances the railway. Who sets up the market to buy the rice they produce. Or the coffee they produce. Who sets up their Central Bank.

The people at the top get the teeming millions to join the communist party - which RAILS against the BIG capitalist, the Americans, etc.

The little people think their railway, buildings, etc., are "communist". They don't realize that the very people their here communist guy rails against, the "big capitalist", created their communist party to keep them all FOLLOWING ORDERS.

If you control a country and want to prevent a revolution against you - you start your own revolution against you and sign everybody up to it. Now there's very little room for a real revolution against you.

One has to think from the globalist's perspective.

They want all income of the little people reported to the government and taxed. The little people are restricted by the laws made by the globalists' lobbyists, so that millions of them can't get into the businesses that the globalist has a monopoly. Phones, transportation, food, construction, capital markets, etc. Every dollar the little people spend goes to a globalist business.

Any time you see a "communal" type arrangement... there is a rich guy who is boss of the commune. Communism is a mirage for suckers created by the really rich and powerful. That's one of the big secrets the globalists' news media wants to hide.

[GOPJ]

Is there a possibility he was recruited by the CIA while he was in the Army? That his discharge and his NSA stint were a cover for another level of training, before he graduated to his Swiss cover?

Makes sense...

[demkicker]

I agree. Clapper, WHO JUST GOT THROUGH LYING TO CONGRESS, has a lot of nerve calling Snowden a traitor! Pot, kettle, black....

[demkicker]

Dept of Energy - one of the biggest jokes of all.

[demkicker]

God, I hope you are right and if so, I hope lots of evidence is protected as well as the leakers!

[gjohnson5]

This is exactly why security guards who don’t even have a diploma get to work for the NSA and CIA....

That community organizer you’re belittling has a juris doctorate from Harvard law shool and was the President of the Harvard Law Review.... There is absolutely NO COMPARISON between Obama and Snowden

[gjohnson5]

I have respect for special forces. However I dont think someone who dropped out of both high school and community college to go SF made a good decision. A smart person would have completed both and then enlisted so that they could go to officer training school